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    • LNM: REMINDER: Dredging and Marine Construction Cautions

      DREDGING AND MARINE CONSTRUCTION CAUTIONS
      Mariners are cautioned to stay clear of dredge, booster, floating (pontoon) and submerged pipelines, barges, derricks, and operating wires associated with dredging and marine construction operations. Operators of vessels of all types should be aware that dredges and floating pipelines are held in  place by cables, attached to anchors some distance away from the equipment. Buoys are attached to the anchors so that the anchors may be moved as the dredge advances and the location of the submerged pipelines are marked by buoys on each side of the channel. Mariners are cautioned to strictly comply with the Inland Rules of the Road when approaching, passing, and leaving the area of operations, and remain a safe distance away from the dredge, booster, buoys, cables, pipeline, barges, derricks, wires, and related equipment. Dredging projects are usually conducted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All fishnets, crab pots and structures in the general area must be removed, prior to commencement of any work. A NO WAKE transit is requested of all vessels passing the dredge and if necessary to clarify a SAFE PASSAGE contact the dredge on the appropriate VHF-FM channels.

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    • Jun 24, 2025by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      Why boat handling skills require constant learning – PassageMaker

      Passagemaker is an excellent resource for cruisers. 

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    • May 8, 2025by:   Curtis Hoff No Comments

      Make Your Cruising Dream Come True – Captain Chris Yacht Services

      Captain Chris, a long-time friend of Cruiser’s Net, offers delivery and training services.  Check out his FREE YouTube Channel containing over 1500 short, real-world videos on boating topics.

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    • Feb 25, 2025by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      FOR EARTH DAY! – Explore Teek and Tom’s educational, climate-weather adventures!

      NOAA Ocean Today

      Engage your elementary aged students this Earth Day with “Teek and Tom!” 

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      Teek and Tom Trailer

      Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth is a five-part animated educational series with ten accompanying lesson plans that takes young viewers on an exploration of the ocean’s influence on Earth’s weather and climate and demonstrates how NOAA uses high tech tools to gather information about our changing planet. 

      If your students love NOAA Ocean Today videos, they’re going to really love this new five-part animated series all about the ocean-weather-climate connection!

      Watch all 5 action and science packed videos!

      Check out all 10 amazing lesson plans! 

      Teek and Tom Educators Guide 

      Download the Educators Guide!

      Note: All five videos(ranging in length from 9 to 16 minutes) and ten lesson plans (available individually and as part of a comprehensive Educator’s Guide) can be freely downloaded from our website for offline use.

       

       

      I would recommend these videos to other educators teaching earth science to students. As an educator in a state that has adopted and implemented the Next Generation Science Standards, these videos either directly or implicitly address multiple standards, and they introduce several NOAA tools and data that can be explored further. There are no free resources that I currently know of that address these specific concepts so thoroughly.

      Laura Cummings, M. Ed.: Sunset Beach Elementary School, Haleiwa, HI.                                 

       

      This (series) will have a big impact on so many kids for a long time! Through the use of the video and the lesson plan, I can see students developing a deep understanding about the difference between weather and climate. I will recommend these videos to other teachers and share them with our district science leadership. 

      Kelley Hodges: Patronis Elementary School
      FLDOE School of Excellence

      Who is the target audience for Teek and Tom?

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      NOAA created the Teek and Tom collection for an upper elementary to middle school audience, including students, educators, and families. We designed the five videos and ten accompanying lesson plans to align with the Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core Math and Common Core English and Language Arts Standards at the fourth-through-sixth-grade level. The accessibility of these resources ensures that students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds can benefit equally, bridging gaps in educational resources. 

      NOAA @ NSTA!: Explore the Ocean, Weather, Climate Connection with Teek and Tom

      Teek and Tom Explore Planet Earth investigates the relationship between the ocean, weather and climate on local to global scales. You’ll sample some of the ten hands-on activities for upper ES and MS students to reinforce Earth science concepts related to oceanography, meteorology and climate.

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      For the Love of Science

      For our more than 70,000 subscribers, we say Thank You for supporting NOAA Ocean Today.      We hope that the content we are creating bring value to your work and your community!

       
       
       

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    • Feb 7, 2025by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      Working Lives: The Herring Fisheries at Plymouth 1939 – David Cecelski

      Herring seine on the Roanoke River, 3 miles above Plymouth, May 1939. The Kitty Hawk and Slade seine fisheries had been in operation for generations, but would close for the last time a few days after these photographs were taken. Photo courtesy, State Archives of North Carolina Read more at Coastal Review, coastalreview.org.

      Working Lives: The Herring Fisheries at Plymouth 1939
      02/07/2025 by David Cecelski

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    • Jan 29, 2025by:   Larry Dorminy 1 Comment

      Into the Mist – PassageMaker

      Even the most experienced boater must acknowledge the risks that fog poses.

      Into the Mist
      Bob Arrington, Jan 27, 2025

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      1. Winston Fowler -  January 30, 2025 - 11:54 am

        Great advise and suggestions: We were caught early one Sunday in a thick fog on the Chesapeake back in 1989 and used a watch for time, boat speed, water depth, and our paper charts to record where we should be along with two crew members watching from bow on both Port and Starboard.
        Made it back to Annapolis without a big hitch although in our approach to Bay Bridge, the large dark area in the fog was a bridge pier not an anchored container ship "whew"… Should have known that given the water depth "LOL"

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    • Jan 19, 2025by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      We Scarfed It – Janice Anne Wheeler

         
       
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      SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE ~~ latest addition. I’m very honored that you’re following along. Thank you from the bottom of my writer’s heart.

      Ah, the life of a liveaboard Sailor…on a Classic Wooden Sailing Yacht… as of August 2024 we are undergoing extensive repair and refit for the next several months(!). In boating terms we are hauled out “on the hard” in Cambridge, Maryland.

      I plan to mix Sailing Stories with the challenges and intricacies of restoring a 90-year-old boat. I’m always open to suggestions as to content….please feel free to weigh in as we manage and learn from this unexpected joust. Thank you! ~J

      A Wooden Boat is a strong, intricate entity constructed of Mother Nature’s finest materials.

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    • Dec 4, 2024by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      History of Currituck Beach Lighthouse, Outer Banks, NC – Kevin Spencer

      December 1st
       
      ON THIS DAY in North Carolina history…
       
      1875:
       
      ON THIS DAY, the last of the four Outer Bank Lights, the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, is lit. It fills in the dark hole from Bodie Island to Cape Henry, Virginia. It is virtually identical to its three sister lighthouses (Bodie, Lookout, Hatteras) in construction. The 162-foot tall tower is constructed of approximately one million bricks. Its foundation extends seven feet below ground, with walls that begin at 5.5′ thick at the base of its tower, then tapering to 3′ thick at the top. It took one and a half years to build, beginning in 1874, and cost around $178,000 to construct.
       
      For its outer appearance, Currituck is left with its natural red brick. The thought by experts is this was the best way to distinguish it from the barber swirls of Hatteras, the diamonds of Lookout, and the horizontal stripes of Bodie Island.
       
      Initially, the beacon is fueled by a mineral oil lamp with five concentric wicks, the largest of which was four inches in diameter. The light is fixed white with a red flash, which occurred every ninety seconds and had a five-second duration. A clockwork mechanism rotates the light. Directly underneath the light, it is powered by weights and has to be hand-cranked every 2 1/2 hours.
       
      Today the light is automated and has been since 1939. The light has a flash pattern of three seconds on, and seventeen seconds off. It can be seen for almost 19 miles out to sea. As part of the automation, the lighthouse also has an automated bulb changer that holds a backup bulb. The Currituck Lighthouse comes on at dusk and turns off at dawn.
       
      ~Kevin Spencer, Author, North Carolina Expatriates

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    • Oct 14, 2024by:   Larry Dorminy No Comments

      A Steadfast Repair – Janice Anne Wheeler

      If you have any interest at all in boat building, or just messing about in boats, then this article is for you. Thank you Capt. Wheeler.

        

      SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE ~~ latest addition! Settle back for your Sunday Morning Read. I’m so honored that you’re following along. Thank you.

      Please enjoy the latest passages from STEADFAST. As of August 1st, 2024 we are undergoing extensive repair and refit and will be for several months. In boating terms we are hauled out “on the hard.” I plan to mix Sailing Stories with the challenges and intricacies of restoring a 90-year-old Sailing Yacht. I’m always open to suggestions as to content….please feel free to weigh in. Thank you. J

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      A STEADFAST REPAIR

      The Ancient Art of Shipbuilding

       
      		 
      		 
      		 
       

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      Boatbuilder Duncan Macfarlane has an old soul. Alive for just under four decades, he prefers music recorded prior to his birth and reveres vessels built long before that. His passion for wooden boats is so strong, in fact, that he’s made it his life’s work to bring them back to what they once were. Back to what they should be. Back to what their designers wanted them to be, and maybe, just maybe, one shade better. On his first day I said to him, “My father always told me, ‘Measure twice, cut once.’ Is that your Mantra?” He looked at me steadily and replied with just a touch of levity. “Oh no. We measure many times.”

      In this photographic essay, Duncan fits the knee, (which you can see being shaped in the post MORE PRECIOUS COMMODITIES), recreates the stem, (or very front) of STEADFAST, and attaches the two together, preparing for installation. The new Purpleheart is a stark and startling contrast to the century-old materials it is replacing and supporting.

      This is the knee, which attaches the stem to the forekeel, or bottom, of the vessel. What a contrast to the original oak. We want it to last another 90 years! The final photo is the view from inside.
        
      Duncan trims our PRECIOUS COMMODITIES down to size prior to the final shaping of the larger new component, the stem.

      Patterns were created from the removed damaged stem as well as from the original 1934 William Hand Jr. designs, which we obtained from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s collection.
        
      The rectangular inlay is called a Dutchman and is used to eliminate an unwanted quality in the lumber. Everything Duncan does has that level of detail.
        
      When the Purpleheart is cut, the color comes alive. I call this Duncan’s Purple World.
        
      He spent hours lofting, which is laying out the plans to scale, and he spends more hours making sure the new fit is perfect, adjusting as he goes.
        
      Tools of the trade range from the rudimentary to the advanced, and it is the attention to detail that will pay off in the end.
        
      STEADFAST’S two new components are fit together for the first time and holes are drilled for the long custom bronze bolts that will hold them together. You can see the seam where the knee and the stem come together.
        
      This precise work requires a bit of guidance, a bit of strength and a hell of a drill bit. The curve that you see here will eventually be what is commonly referred to as the bow.
        
      The holes drilled are precisely the same size as the bronze bolts and it takes some brawn to pound them through the tough tropical hardwood. Tar seals the seam, and there is a ‘key’ (the small block of wood between the stem and the knee) ensuring that everything fits just as it should.
        
      This may be the last week we can see outside from the inside. It is truly a disconcerting view.
        
      The apparatus is in place to install the half-ton of meticulously recreated replacement components, giving STEADFAST back her shape. Progress indeed! Duncan is on the right, owner Steve Uhthoff is on the left.

      The ancient art of shipbuilding is, like many ancient arts, becoming more and more rare, as are boatbuilders themselves. It was determined a few decades ago that other materials lasted longer and were far easier to maintain. Progress? That, of course, is a matter of opinion. Regardless, what an opportunity it is to see how complex, intricate, interdependent and STEADFAST vessels such as this one really are. Thanks for following along as we complete the painstaking and joyful repair and refit of our floating home. There are many more steps to come!!

      Your input is appreciated and welcome! Love wooden boats? Build them? Never seen one? People certainly fall into all these categories. Like our Boatbuilder himself, STEADFAST most certainly has an old soul, in more ways than one.

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      *** I will always keep the articles I have written available for free to my readers. If you see value and possess the means, it’s great encouragement to have paid subscribers. If not, simply ‘liking,’ commenting, restacking and sharing these tales helps spread the word about me and what I have chosen to do. There should be someone on your email list that would be intrigued! Sharing is caring.

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      Most importantly, YOU, MY READERS, ARE TREMENDOUSLY APPRECIATED!

      And lastly: our weekly sunrise. These can be seen on Facebook YACHTING STEADFAST each and every morning until 2025.

        
      A Deadrise Workboat goes out at dawn in the last month of the Blue Crab Season here on the Chesapeake Bay. Miss STEADFAST is the two masts on the right, hauled out at Yacht Maintenance Co. in Cambridge, Maryland.

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